By BFN News | 01:05 PM | Monday 22 December, 2014
JSC RusHydro has announced that the last 333 MW hydropower unit has been commissioned and put into commercial operation at the Boguchanskaya hydropower plant (a 50/50 JV of RusHydro and UC RUSAL). Total installed capacity of all nine hydro-units in operation amounts to 3000 MW. Deptuy minister of energy Vyacheslav Kravchenko, RusHydro chairman Evgeny Dod and RUSAL chief executive Vladislav Soloviev participated in the ceremony of hydro-unit launch through videoconference with the Boguchanskaya HPP. The first three 333 MW hydropower units of the Boguchanskaya HPP were put into operation on November 26, 2012, the fourth hydropower unit was launched on January 21, 2013, unit No.5 - on November 5, 2013, unit 6 on December 6, 2013 and units 7 and 8 in the end of September 2014. The plant has started commercial supplies to the wholesale electricity and capacity market from December 1, 2012. Since its launch the Boguchanskaya HPP has generated 13 TWh of electricity. The plant is a major taxpayer: for the nine months of 2014 it has paid over RUB1.3 bn to the federal and regional budget. At 1:05pm: Story provided by StockMarketWire.com
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